You know, being a developer and seeing OSX come out, I worked my ass off to get one.
Obviously, my vision was not so shared amongst marketing and product managers at many corps. Ironically, my titanium laptop and reasoning behind getting it has been accepted and appreciated (if not envied) by just about every CEO/CTO/'Director of this and that' that I have come into contact with.
I've come to terms with my cellular provider, Verizon not having a single device that supports blluetooth. And now, I find that Palm is just walking away from Apple's OS! You'd think Palm facing heavy compitition from winCE would look to the Mac as a safe haven of a sort. Well apparantly not.
Beyond more than anything I would love a bluetooth device. If only for wireless data exchange. sure, I could set up a webpage that my laptop could rsync to via wifi, but an honest to god direct connecvtion from my laptop to appliance? WHY CAN'T I HAVE THIS SIMPLE LUXORY!?!?!?!
So to compensate for this frustration, I'll be going out and getting a 40gig iPod to serve as my iSynch enabled data transfer/storage device.
I wonder if Apple is planning an OSX-embedded edition? It would make sense, be a sound development/product placement move and in fact be invogue. Could the fall out with Palm be nothing more than the result of backroom talks between Steve and Palm???
Photonics == lasers So this technology should also revolutionize the mod scene and therefore dramatically effect Slashdot's front page. I wonder how many kids will accidentally burn their eyes out looking into the light?
What with the last go around with Powell and his support of a very one sided royalty system for internet radio, I was seriously thinking the guy was like darth Vader or something.
but this, this thing, this VOIP SIP phone not needing regulation and therefore added expense and licensing and anal probing and government placating and and well.. It's just wonderful!
Now for all those who say "But where will the telcos pay for the landlines" I say, they should roll in the SIP themselves and offer it as part of their DSL/Broadband package. Charge and extra $30 a month for it and overcharge 500% on the eqpt as usual with a mandatory fee of $250.00 for sending over a dude dressed like a gas station attendent who will plug it in and turn it on, plus cram in 120 or so extra fees and excise taxes. And that my friend is where SBC and the like will compensate for long distance.
Seems every lawyer I meet these days is into IP law and living in downtown SF, I meet quite a few every week. Most of these lawyers also tells me with a very satisfied smile on their face what a complete and utter scam it all is. None of them want to see it changed. Hell, I can't blame them, it's like one big swollen tit from which to feed.
And no, it's not cases like this that will cause anything to change. For that will need to be done by tax paying citizens taking up torches and pitchforks and decending upon Washington in an orgy of blood lust. Then maybe we might see Congress decide to "review" the patent application process.
That's about as much as I can say really. Now as for winning wars and all, I haven't heard much about either browser in Iraq or Afghanistan. But, I was using Safari when I read about Saddam getting nabbed. So is Safari the browser currently winning the war?
Seriously, this is huge! Must suck to be Apple right now though, considering they just released the mini iPods which are based on tech that is already looking rather inferior. Who knows, maybe Apple will release a "mini iPod mini" they could call it the mini-squared (damn no superscript).... Regardless, my Digital Rebel is about to interface with bliss!
I'm from the future and entire thing is bad bad bad I say! On Comcast very Channel is now the Disney Channel! Latenite watchers of DisneyMax have to consult a height chart to figure out which ones are the skinflicks! After finding the skinflicks, the tits are covered by digitally imposed goofy heads!!
But they got rid of Eisner in the process, so it's not all bad.
Lets see... Acer(Shiny Shiny Red ^ Ferarri logo)/CSt where CSt == Consumer Stupidity
Yeap... the Acer marketing dept was right on the money this time. I read the story last week and I thought it was hilarious that a "tech-savvy" adult would get such a kick out of the PC equivelant of a Dukes of Hazard lunchbox. Goes to show it's not all about Mhz/RAM/HD... nope not at all. Give anything a paint job, slap on a snazzy logo and damn... if someone wont think it's just the bestest thingy since slicest breaded.
I imagine this might come in handy for consensus surveys. Take a picture of the person who signs your petition/donates to your organization, get their photograph and GPS position recorded in a database.
AND SELL ALL THE DATA TO THE MATRIX PROJECT MUAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes... yes... indeed. Time to screw my tinfoil cap on a tad bit tighter now.
I think anyone who knows ANYTHING about computers would tell you that there is no guarantee of security or stability.
Lawmakers should take this into account and require the prosecution or plaintiff show beyond a reasonable doubt that the data can in fact be reasonably trusted and has not been handled by an untrusted or malicious party.
Overall, this question raises a lot of issues. But I feel the courts need to decide on a set of guidelines that can be used to assure the jury and the defense that the evidence presented to support accusations can in fact be trusted. Because who's to say an overzaelous prosecuter didn't hire someone to "put" something on the suspect HD?
But even then the courts might have a hard time ahead. Already we've seen cases that raise this question in which there can be no "safe-guard" and in fact the defense relies upon the exploitablity of software. This was demonstrated in the kiddie porn trial in the UK in which the defendant got aquitted because his lawyers successfully argued that a virus planted the porn on his PC.
Ulitmately, it is double-sided issues such as this that are leading us down the path of Microsofts Secure Computing initiative. But that is a mission that is doomed from the start... history shows us that no matter how secure they make it, some one will break it.
I run OSX and my MSIM has not been able to contact the service for a few hours now. Not sure if this is related to MyDoom, but the MSIM service has been rather spotty the last couple days.
Well then again... it is an MSNBC article. Seems some one in the mainstream press got a clue and has decided that the other 98% of the people should join in on the fun... if they can figure out how to use Google that is.
Who knows, maybe they'll even teach the clueless about Google image search... which came in handy this last weekend when a girl who wanted to model but couldn't figure out how to send me a pic attached in an email... Curious as to what she looked like, I googled and found her.
As you can see, the stuff you can find on image search sure as hell beats those top-secret pentagon word documents anyday:)
I still can't figure out why the gamma on the PC and the Mac are so far apart. Hell, the gamma on a windows system is much lower than a Mac and even darker than a CRT TV!!!
Why is this? And why is there not a universal standard by which a display is to be callibrated. Sure, you could argue that there is already 3 standards, but my question is why not just one standard?
As a visual artist I find it irritating to have my imagery appear darker on a PC and when I play a DVD, I notice that the display on my Mac is much brighter than my TV. I'm sure movie producers and directors get annoyed by this as well.
By setting an international gamma/color calibration standard, all visual media would benefit not only because of consistant display but lowered production costs as well.
Immediately following the addition of the copyright infringement claims, Darl McBride announced that his dog fluffy, a 3 year old pomeranian had been kicked and severely injured. McBride citing his suspicions of IBM being the culprit planned to add his veterinarian bills as well as an unspecified monetary claim for emotional distress. "Poor Fluffy will never be the same again" Darl was quoted as saying from his Lindon Utah office
"...It's titled The Virus Underground, and it takes a look at the world of malware scripters, virus writers and worm designers."
I'm wondering if they bothered to take down the scripters home addresses, email address and phone number so we know where to send our tribulations of eternal gratitude?
We as the consumers and public should not have to settle for purposefullly flawed merchandise. Especially as this could set a rather nasty precident fullly in the manufacturers favor.
When companies introduce flaws into their product as a means to prevent theft, we are the ones paying the price. This is not the first such "flaw" that has been introduced, remember those audio CD's that were given "flawed" audio so as to make them unreproduceable?
The problem with this flaw is that it is the actual mechanics of the merchandise we are buying. They will be selling a printer that is made to not print as well as it could. Any one want to challenge this in court? It's fully in HP's favor and could set precident for many other manufacturers. Down the road this could have serious implications as to the quallity of the technology the public recieves. In effect, rolling back decades of progress and empowerment of the common man. Multi-media and desktop publishing were still very expensive in the early 90's... look at the cost to get into that now, magnitudes of order less. What this threatens is to lock us out of the high-end, and put the power back into the hands of the businesses. This effect will not be felt this year or the next, but in 5 or 6 years.
What I find rather ugly about this is that currency is something that enjoys uncontested proprietaryship in it's manufacture. A few years back they did a massive overhaul, adding special strips woven into the paper fibers, special inks that would last through wear/tear and show up under UV light, a special paper fabrication, and now the color process and microdetialing that has been added to this years 20's.
Why is it that the consumer must pay when our goverment has the ability to alter the currency at will? The only argument I could see that would make sense is the old "greenback" that can still be found in circulation. And if that's the case, do like the euro and put out a public moratorium worlwide, "Redeem you greenbacks for up to date currency by so and so date" and those who miss that date, tough.
But to stifle the consumer and intentionally flaw the product? There may be a day not too far from now where noothing really works as well as it should.
"...he raised the suspicions of many in scientific communities that he was taking advantage of a lot of other people's work for his sole financial gain and that he was going against the open nature of academia by using restrictive copyright." "Perhaps Wolfram is giving back to the scientific community; perhaps it is simply clever marketing for a framework that is beginning to gain momentum."
So what organization will Random House et al cobble together, dress up in flight jackets and use to break into every nerdy teenagers bedroom? What happens when the RIAA thugs and the Book thugs show up at the same place at the same time? Do tehy fight for dibs on the kids piggy bank? Now that I'd like to see.
For all my analog data display needs I devised a method of using hand held sticks made of chalk on a slate tablet. Tablet PC's watch out, analog data displays are on the way in again!!!
I've even got a hand held version on the way!!! Ohh and of course I've already filed over 100 patents covering my unique inventions here.
I'm so sick of our government coming through like a steamroller driven by a pack of drunken angry midgets. Lord knows, I might wind up in a Federal Buttslammer for having my fax number listed as 999.999.9999 in my whois db entry... of coourse that would be taking it to the extreme, but after the DMCA and the US govt's persistant display of ignorance and money grabbing from lobbyists, I have come only to expect the worst.
And the irony here is that a country that calls itself the land of the free seems to want to put anyone and everyone into it's butt-parlours for just about anything it can think up.
My rant aside, isn't there a better contribution our government could make for the sake of the internet? Like education, so the next generation of lawmakers might actually have a shred of a clue?
Or an international council like the UN in which an open forum could be made that is a bit beyond the corporate lobbyists, if not banned from talking to corporate representitives entirely?
"Anyone else think we're nearing the end of the analog phone system?"
That is a rather broad statement. The Plain Old Telephone System (POTS) network is rather all encompassing and while we see all these new ways of communication, you'd be surprised on how much we still rely on POTS today. I doubt if we'll ever see the end of POTS in our lifetime, the same thing with CB, just because we have celluler and satelite phone networks, the relatively lowtech CB is still in heavy use today.
"Companies pay because about 80% of Internet searches are performed with Google technology, says online newsletter Search Engine Watch. That's 200 million searches a day, whether on Google or on affiliates such as America Online, Yahoo, CNN.com and USATODAY.com."
I think everyone, anyone and especially EFF and Groklaw need to remember what was stated in that report. 80% is a huge portion of any market and all related market research to determining this number should be held onto by interested parties. It may become very handy after longhorn is released... imagine the dent to the 80% figure embedded IE will have when 100% of it's users will be directed to MS's search serrvices.
So while this data may cause for a lot of rooting, tooting and backslapping today, in a couple years it could be the basis for yet another MS anti-trust suit.
"Judge Sidney R. Thomas, regarded as among the most technologically astute of the 9th Circuit judges, noted that users of the file-swapping networks could continue to trade files, even if Morpheus and Grokster were shut down immediately.
``If that's true, aren't we chasing the wind here?'' asked Thomas.
Frackman countered that the Morpheus system would eventually degrade and file-swappers would lose interest."
I for one got fed up with getting 10kb/s over my 1.5mb line 2 years ago... and though I got tired of p2p long ago, I have yet to see people en mass stop because of the crappy network. So no... me thinks their strategy is a bit presumptious. Besides, if they shut down n servers, who's to say the community wont replace them with n^2 more?
Awww man and I was already trying to figure out how to adapt a CAT-5 to fit my power outlets so I could turn my living room floor lamp into a stock ticker.
Slashdot Mirror
You know, being a developer and seeing OSX come out, I worked my ass off to get one.
Obviously, my vision was not so shared amongst marketing and product managers at many corps. Ironically, my titanium laptop and reasoning behind getting it has been accepted and appreciated (if not envied) by just about every CEO/CTO/'Director of this and that' that I have come into contact with.
I've come to terms with my cellular provider, Verizon not having a single device that supports blluetooth. And now, I find that Palm is just walking away from Apple's OS!
You'd think Palm facing heavy compitition from winCE would look to the Mac as a safe haven of a sort.
Well apparantly not.
Beyond more than anything I would love a bluetooth device. If only for wireless data exchange. sure, I could set up a webpage that my laptop could rsync to via wifi, but an honest to god direct connecvtion from my laptop to appliance? WHY CAN'T I HAVE THIS SIMPLE LUXORY!?!?!?!
So to compensate for this frustration, I'll be going out and getting a 40gig iPod to serve as my iSynch enabled data transfer/storage device.
I wonder if Apple is planning an OSX-embedded edition?
It would make sense, be a sound development/product placement move and in fact be invogue.
Could the fall out with Palm be nothing more than the result of backroom talks between Steve and Palm???
Photonics == lasers
So this technology should also revolutionize the mod scene and therefore dramatically effect Slashdot's front page.
I wonder how many kids will accidentally burn their eyes out looking into the light?
What with the last go around with Powell and his support of a very one sided royalty system for internet radio, I was seriously thinking the guy was like darth Vader or something.
but this, this thing, this VOIP SIP phone not needing regulation and therefore added expense and licensing and anal probing and government placating and and well..
It's just wonderful!
Now for all those who say "But where will the telcos pay for the landlines" I say, they should roll in the SIP themselves and offer it as part of their DSL/Broadband package. Charge and extra $30 a month for it and overcharge 500% on the eqpt as usual with a mandatory fee of $250.00 for sending over a dude dressed like a gas station attendent who will plug it in and turn it on, plus cram in 120 or so extra fees and excise taxes. And that my friend is where SBC and the like will compensate for long distance.
Seems every lawyer I meet these days is into IP law and living in downtown SF, I meet quite a few every week. Most of these lawyers also tells me with a very satisfied smile on their face what a complete and utter scam it all is. None of them want to see it changed. Hell, I can't blame them, it's like one big swollen tit from which to feed.
And no, it's not cases like this that will cause anything to change. For that will need to be done by tax paying citizens taking up torches and pitchforks and decending upon Washington in an orgy of blood lust. Then maybe we might see Congress decide to "review" the patent application process.
That's about as much as I can say really.
Now as for winning wars and all, I haven't heard much about either browser in Iraq or Afghanistan.
But, I was using Safari when I read about Saddam getting nabbed. So is Safari the browser currently winning the war?
All I can say is *drool*
Seriously, this is huge! Must suck to be Apple right now though, considering they just released the mini iPods which are based on tech that is already looking rather inferior. Who knows, maybe Apple will release a "mini iPod mini" they could call it the mini-squared (damn no superscript)....
Regardless, my Digital Rebel is about to interface with bliss!
I'm from the future and entire thing is bad bad bad I say!
On Comcast very Channel is now the Disney Channel!
Latenite watchers of DisneyMax have to consult a height chart to figure out which ones are the skinflicks!
After finding the skinflicks, the tits are covered by digitally imposed goofy heads!!
But they got rid of Eisner in the process, so it's not all bad.
Lets see...
Acer(Shiny Shiny Red ^ Ferarri logo)/CSt
where CSt == Consumer Stupidity
Yeap... the Acer marketing dept was right on the money this time. I read the story last week and I thought it was hilarious that a "tech-savvy" adult would get such a kick out of the PC equivelant of a Dukes of Hazard lunchbox.
Goes to show it's not all about Mhz/RAM/HD... nope not at all. Give anything a paint job, slap on a snazzy logo and damn... if someone wont think it's just the bestest thingy since slicest breaded.
I imagine this might come in handy for consensus surveys.
Take a picture of the person who signs your petition/donates to your organization, get their photograph and GPS position recorded in a database.
AND SELL ALL THE DATA TO THE MATRIX PROJECT
MUAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes... yes... indeed.
Time to screw my tinfoil cap on a tad bit tighter now.
I think anyone who knows ANYTHING about computers would tell you that there is no guarantee of security or stability.
Lawmakers should take this into account and require the prosecution or plaintiff show beyond a reasonable doubt that the data can in fact be reasonably trusted and has not been handled by an untrusted or malicious party.
Overall, this question raises a lot of issues. But I feel the courts need to decide on a set of guidelines that can be used to assure the jury and the defense that the evidence presented to support accusations can in fact be trusted.
Because who's to say an overzaelous prosecuter didn't hire someone to "put" something on the suspect HD?
But even then the courts might have a hard time ahead. Already we've seen cases that raise this question in which there can be no "safe-guard" and in fact the defense relies upon the exploitablity of software. This was demonstrated in the kiddie porn trial in the UK in which the defendant got aquitted because his lawyers successfully argued that a virus planted the porn on his PC.
Ulitmately, it is double-sided issues such as this that are leading us down the path of Microsofts Secure Computing initiative. But that is a mission that is doomed from the start... history shows us that no matter how secure they make it, some one will break it.
I run OSX and my MSIM has not been able to contact the service for a few hours now. Not sure if this is related to MyDoom, but the MSIM service has been rather spotty the last couple days.
Well then again... it is an MSNBC article.
:)
Seems some one in the mainstream press got a clue and has decided that the other 98% of the people should join in on the fun... if they can figure out how to use Google that is.
Who knows, maybe they'll even teach the clueless about Google image search... which came in handy this last weekend when a girl who wanted to model but couldn't figure out how to send me a pic attached in an email... Curious as to what she looked like, I googled and found her.
As you can see, the stuff you can find on image search sure as hell beats those top-secret pentagon word documents anyday
I still can't figure out why the gamma on the PC and the Mac are so far apart. Hell, the gamma on a windows system is much lower than a Mac and even darker than a CRT TV!!!
Why is this? And why is there not a universal standard by which a display is to be callibrated. Sure, you could argue that there is already 3 standards, but my question is why not just one standard?
As a visual artist I find it irritating to have my imagery appear darker on a PC and when I play a DVD, I notice that the display on my Mac is much brighter than my TV.
I'm sure movie producers and directors get annoyed by this as well.
By setting an international gamma/color calibration standard, all visual media would benefit not only because of consistant display but lowered production costs as well.
Immediately following the addition of the copyright infringement claims, Darl McBride announced that his dog fluffy, a 3 year old pomeranian had been kicked and severely injured. McBride citing his suspicions of IBM being the culprit planned to add his veterinarian bills as well as an unspecified monetary claim for emotional distress. "Poor Fluffy will never be the same again" Darl was quoted as saying from his Lindon Utah office
"...It's titled The Virus Underground, and it takes a look at the world of malware scripters, virus writers and worm designers."
I'm wondering if they bothered to take down the scripters home addresses, email address and phone number so we know where to send our tribulations of eternal gratitude?
From the article:
"It would be like trying to get a suntan from a light-emitting diode," Mr. Remboski said. "It's just not going to happen."
Now they tell me! Well at least now I know that adding those few hundred more LED's to my tanning panel wont help at all.
We as the consumers and public should not have to settle for purposefullly flawed merchandise. Especially as this could set a rather nasty precident fullly in the manufacturers favor.
When companies introduce flaws into their product as a means to prevent theft, we are the ones paying the price.
This is not the first such "flaw" that has been introduced, remember those audio CD's that were given "flawed" audio so as to make them unreproduceable?
The problem with this flaw is that it is the actual mechanics of the merchandise we are buying. They will be selling a printer that is made to not print as well as it could.
Any one want to challenge this in court?
It's fully in HP's favor and could set precident for many other manufacturers. Down the road this could have serious implications as to the quallity of the technology the public recieves. In effect, rolling back decades of progress and empowerment of the common man. Multi-media and desktop publishing were still very expensive in the early 90's... look at the cost to get into that now, magnitudes of order less. What this threatens is to lock us out of the high-end, and put the power back into the hands of the businesses. This effect will not be felt this year or the next, but in 5 or 6 years.
What I find rather ugly about this is that currency is something that enjoys uncontested proprietaryship in it's manufacture. A few years back they did a massive overhaul, adding special strips woven into the paper fibers, special inks that would last through wear/tear and show up under UV light, a special paper fabrication, and now the color process and microdetialing that has been added to this years 20's.
Why is it that the consumer must pay when our goverment has the ability to alter the currency at will? The only argument I could see that would make sense is the old "greenback" that can still be found in circulation.
And if that's the case, do like the euro and put out a public moratorium worlwide, "Redeem you greenbacks for up to date currency by so and so date" and those who miss that date, tough.
But to stifle the consumer and intentionally flaw the product? There may be a day not too far from now where noothing really works as well as it should.
"...he raised the suspicions of many in scientific communities that he was taking advantage of a lot of other people's work for his sole financial gain and that he was going against the open nature of academia by using restrictive copyright."
"Perhaps Wolfram is giving back to the scientific community; perhaps it is simply clever marketing for a framework that is beginning to gain momentum."
So what organization will Random House et al cobble together, dress up in flight jackets and use to break into every nerdy teenagers bedroom? What happens when the RIAA thugs and the Book thugs show up at the same place at the same time? Do tehy fight for dibs on the kids piggy bank? Now that I'd like to see.
What's the world coming too?
YAAAAAAaaaaaarrrrgh!!!!
For all my analog data display needs I devised a method of using hand held sticks made of chalk on a slate tablet.
Tablet PC's watch out, analog data displays are on the way in again!!!
I've even got a hand held version on the way!!!
Ohh and of course I've already filed over 100 patents covering my unique inventions here.
I'm so sick of our government coming through like a steamroller driven by a pack of drunken angry midgets.
Lord knows, I might wind up in a Federal Buttslammer for having my fax number listed as 999.999.9999 in my whois db entry... of coourse that would be taking it to the extreme, but after the DMCA and the US govt's persistant display of ignorance and money grabbing from lobbyists, I have come only to expect the worst.
And the irony here is that a country that calls itself the land of the free seems to want to put anyone and everyone into it's butt-parlours for just about anything it can think up.
My rant aside, isn't there a better contribution our government could make for the sake of the internet?
Like education, so the next generation of lawmakers might actually have a shred of a clue?
Or an international council like the UN in which an open forum could be made that is a bit beyond the corporate lobbyists, if not banned from talking to corporate representitives entirely?
"Anyone else think we're nearing the end of the analog phone system?"
That is a rather broad statement.
The Plain Old Telephone System (POTS) network is rather all encompassing and while we see all these new ways of communication, you'd be surprised on how much we still rely on POTS today. I doubt if we'll ever see the end of POTS in our lifetime, the same thing with CB, just because we have celluler and satelite phone networks, the relatively lowtech CB is still in heavy use today.
I think everyone, anyone and especially EFF and Groklaw need to remember what was stated in that report.
80% is a huge portion of any market and all related market research to determining this number should be held onto by interested parties. It may become very handy after longhorn is released... imagine the dent to the 80% figure embedded IE will have when 100% of it's users will be directed to MS's search serrvices.
So while this data may cause for a lot of rooting, tooting and backslapping today, in a couple years it could be the basis for yet another MS anti-trust suit.
``If that's true, aren't we chasing the wind here?'' asked Thomas.
Frackman countered that the Morpheus system would eventually degrade and file-swappers would lose interest."
I for one got fed up with getting 10kb/s over my 1.5mb line 2 years ago... and though I got tired of p2p long ago, I have yet to see people en mass stop because of the crappy network. So no... me thinks their strategy is a bit presumptious. Besides, if they shut down n servers, who's to say the community wont replace them with n^2 more?
Awww man and I was already trying to figure out how to adapt a CAT-5 to fit my power outlets so I could turn my living room floor lamp into a stock ticker.